Florida High Tech Corridor Incubators Experience Startup Surge
Florida native and CEO of Agriculture Intelligence Matt Donovan has discovered a “renewed environment with a fertile ground for talent.” A resident company in UF Innovate | The Hub, Agriculture Intelligence is a precision agriculture science company combining machine vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide cloud-based, precision data for specialty crops.
UF Researchers Say Marine Products Show Promising Future In Medical Advancements
Many drug research efforts occurring at UF are focused on marine and natural products that will lead to advancements in medications and treatments for cancers. Dr. Hendrik Luesch was involved in a recent discovery of a marine compound off the east coast of Florida named gatorbulin-1 that could potentially be used in the fight against cancer; this discovery highlights the importance of searching the ocean’s biodiversity.
‘One Billion Doses On Day One’: Vaccine Company Claims World-Changing Innovation
Curious about what motivates the company that just acquired UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Ology Bioservices? Anger at the length of time it is taking to get vaccines to fight Covid. This story in Forbes is a picture of Resilience, a new player in the town of Alachua.
Morphogenesis’ Skin Cancer Vaccine Gets FDA ‘Fast Track’
Tampa company Morphogenesis, a UF startup, has received a “fast track” designation for its skin cancer vaccination from the United States Food and Drug Administration.
Resilience Acquires Biologics Manufacturing Company Ology Bioservices
Resilience, a company building the world’s most advanced biopharmaceutical manufacturing ecosystem, announced it has acquired Ology Bioservices, Inc., a privately held company that also specializes in biologic drug substance manufacturing from early-stage through commercial products.
TeamedOn and AGTC Announce a Licensing Agreement Advancing X-Linked Retinoschisis Gene Therapy Program
AGTC will provide TeamedOn with the clinical trial material, pre-clinical and clinical data generated for the development of AGTC’s investigational intravitreal gene therapy candidate, rAAV2tYF-CB-hRS1
UF Innovate’s Jim O’Connell Featured on Technology Transfer IP Podcast
Jim O’Connell, assistant vice president for Commercialization at UF Innovate is featured on Tech Transfer IP Forum Podcast, a space devoted to providing in-depth analysis of intellectual property issues related to university and non-profit technology transfer.
Cannabix Technologies to Beta Test Marijuana Breathalyzer With Private Clinic
UF startup Cannabix Technologies Inc., developer of the Cannabix Marijuana Breathalyzer for law enforcement and the workplace, will begin beta testing its THC Breath Analyzer with a private drug-testing clinic located in the Northwestern United States.
UF Researchers Engineer New Membrane for At-Home, Overnight Dialysis
University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering department researchers Saeed Moghaddam, professor, and Richard Rode, postdoc, have discovered a way to make a wearable filter for at-home, overnight dialysis.
World-Renowned UF Health Biochemistry Researcher Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Ph.D., Dies
University of Florida Health biochemistry professor Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Ph.D., whose world-renowned work on the detailed structure of viruses led to advances in gene therapy treatments for different diseases, died Wednesday (March 3) at her home near Gainesville of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.